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Modern Military Technology in Counterinsurgency Warfare: The Experience of the Nationalist Army during the Chinese Civil War
Integrated voice/data protocols for satellite channels
Several integrated voice/data protocols for satellite channels are studied. The system consists of two types of traffic: voice calls which are blocked-calls-cleared and the data packets which may be stored when no channel is available. The voice calls are operated under a demand assignment protocol. Three different data protocols for data packets are introduced. Under Random Access Data (RAD), the Aloha random access scheme is used. Due to the nature of random access, the channel utilization is low. Under Demand Assignment Data (DAD), a demand assignment protocol is used to improve channel utilization. Since a satellite channel has long propagation delay, DAD may perform worse than RAD. The two protocols are combined to obtain a new protocol called Hybrid Data (HD). The proposed protocols are fully distributed and no central controller is required. Numerical results show that HD enjoys a lower delay than DAD and provides a much higher channel capacity than RAD. The effects of fixed and movable boundaries are compared in partitioning the total frequency band to voice and data users
Subalgebras of \gc_N and Jacobi polynomials
We classify the subalgebras of the general Lie conformal algebra \gc_N that
act irreducibly on \C[\partial]^N and that are normalized by the
--part of a Virasoro element. The problem turns out to be
closely related to classical Jacobi polynomials ,
\sigma\in\C. The connection goes both ways -- we use in our classification
some classical properties of Jacobi polynomials, and we derive from the theory
of conformal algebras some apparently new properties of Jacobi polynomials.Comment: 35 pages, LaTe
Closed form asymptotics for local volatility models
We obtain new closed-form pricing formulas for contingent claims when the
asset follows a Dupire-type local volatility model. To obtain the formulas we
use the Dyson-Taylor commutator method that we have recently developed in [5,
6, 8] for short-time asymptotic expansions of heat kernels, and obtain a family
of general closed-form approximate solutions for both the pricing kernel and
derivative price. A bootstrap scheme allows us to extend our method to large
time. We also perform analytic as well as a numerical error analysis, and
compare our results to other known methods.Comment: 30 pages, 10 figure
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